Tom Clancy?s Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow
- June 28, 2004 08:04 AM PST
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More Clancy action is coming your way in the form of Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow!
Despite being released last year at virtually the same time as Counter-Strike, the king of online first-person-shooters, Rainbow Six 3 received better reviews and, more importantly, greater popularity on Xbox Live.To be fair, the former was basically an update of a four-year-old game and the latter had a story-driven single-player mode. Black Arrow is more of an expansion rather than a full-blown sequel, but that doesn?t mean it skimps on features. Among the list of upgrades are new weapons, extra equipment, and a single-player campaign that now spans the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe.
Based on a recently playable build, the control scheme has not changed, but the intelligence of the enemy has. They now call for backup when in trouble and use hostages as human shields.
Not yet functioning was the online play, which, when up and running, will add support for the recently upgraded Xbox Live that features user-created tournaments, messaging, and clan statistics. Private lobbies where teams can map out strategies and two new game modes -- capture the flag and capture the point -- will also be implemented.
For the offline crowd, a split-screen co-operative campaign has been added with two A.I. characters filling out the rest of your team.
